Description
January / February 2004 | Our Travel Planning Issue, Part 2
DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Creel 6
Fishing For A Compliment 10
Reader’s Lines 12
Gear Review 14
Rafting Essentials
Fishing News 22
Part 1 of 3
Fish Alaska Services Guide 76
Advertiser Index 78
Fish Recipe 80
Henry’s Crawfish Pie
The Final Drift 82
My First Salmon
Features
Rafting Alaska For Beginners
by Les Gara
Expert floater Les Gara discusses rafting options for first-timers in Alaska.
Heli-Fishing
By Troy Letherman
Fishing for salmon can be competitive at best. Here is an alternative that will leave you with a lifetime experience.
Fishing from a Kayak
By Tom Watson
Quiet and graceful, kayaks offer a great way to get to some great fishing.
Fish the Richardson
By Scott Haugen
The Richardson Highway—underfished and over blessed with beautiful vistas and accessible water.
Wog & Flash on the Alagnak
By Dave Vedder
These unconventional attractors got rave reviews from rainbows to cohos.
Charter Seward
By Doug Wilson
Only 128 miles from Anchorage, this fjord fishing is beautiful and affordable.
BONUS SECTION
Fish Kodiak Island
by Marcus Weiner and Melissa Norris
From four-wheelers to salt flats Fish Alaska magazine publishers Marcus Weiner and Melissa Norris take on the Emerald Isle.
COVER/ The makings of a great kayak fishing adventure. © Tom Watson
